Re: Skipping disk erase on Debian text-based installation (fwd)

2022-05-02 Thread Nick Gawronski
Hi, I think that some type of message should be written in the installer that is used with speech telling the user that if you don't need to wipe the disk like if it is already encrypted then you can press control and c to abort the process so that the message is clear and so that it is known t

Re: Skipping disk erase on Debian text-based installation (fwd)

2022-05-02 Thread Holger Wansing
Am 2. Mai 2022 13:58:54 MESZ schrieb Samuel Thibault : >Holger Wansing, le lun. 02 mai 2022 13:52:36 +0200, a ecrit: >> Nick is right, if you perform an install with speech output, there is no >> interactive possibility to cancel the full disk wipe action in the text >> frontend used for speec

Re: Skipping disk erase on Debian text-based installation (fwd)

2022-05-02 Thread Samuel Thibault
Holger Wansing, le lun. 02 mai 2022 13:52:36 +0200, a ecrit: > Nick is right, if you perform an install with speech output, there is no > interactive possibility to cancel the full disk wipe action in the text > frontend used for speech! > In the newt frontend or graphical installer there is the

Re: Skipping disk erase on Debian text-based installation (fwd)

2022-05-02 Thread Holger Wansing
Hi Nick, Nick Gawronski wrote (Sun, 1 May 2022 17:19:48 -0500): > Hi, I am totally blind and use the s option at boot to start the > installer with speech output.  If I wish to add this kernel command line > option yet still run the installation using software speech output would > pressing s

Re: Skipping disk erase on Debian text-based installation (fwd)

2022-05-01 Thread Nick Gawronski
Hi, I am totally blind and use the s option at boot to start the installer with speech output.  If I wish to add this kernel command line option yet still run the installation using software speech output would pressing s then tab and then entering in the command line switches then pressing ent

Re: Skipping disk erase on Debian text-based installation (fwd)

2022-05-01 Thread Philip Hands
Nick Gawronski writes: > Hi, I had to reinstall debian and like to encrypt my installations.  > Regardless of what installation image I use I find that no choice exists > to not do the complete wiping of the disk before the LVM manager is > setup.  I get that it will be possible to press contr

Re: Skipping disk erase on Debian text-based installation (fwd)

2022-05-01 Thread Christian Schoepplein
Hi, > Am 01.05.2022 um 02:04 schrieb Nick Gawronski : > Hi, I had to reinstall debian and like to encrypt my installations. > Regardless of what installation image I use I find that no choice exists to > not do the complete wiping of the disk before the LVM manager is setup. I > get that it

Re: Skipping disk erase on Debian text-based installation (fwd)

2022-04-30 Thread Nick Gawronski
Hi, I had to reinstall debian and like to encrypt my installations.  Regardless of what installation image I use I find that no choice exists to not do the complete wiping of the disk before the LVM manager is setup.  I get that it will be possible to press control and c to stop the process but